Carjacker shoots man on West Side

The area where a man was shot after he and a woman were carjacked early today in East Garfield Park. (WGN-TV)

A carjacker ordered a man and a woman to lie on the ground, then shot the man before escaping in the victim's car in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, police say.

The 39-year-old victim was recovering at a hospital following the attack in the 3500 block of West Chicago Avenue just before 1 a.m., police said. Police were trying to locate the car, a green 1992 Audi sedan, with a license plate beginning with "P 33," according to Police News Affairs.

The victim and a woman were leaving a residence and walking to a car in a back lot when two men -- one armed with a handgun -- approached and demanded the man's car keys, police said.

The men then ordered the couple to lie on the ground. After the couple complied, one of the robbers shot the man in the right leg, police said.

The two men then got into the victim's green 1992 Audi and fled the scene. The woman wasn't hurt, police said.

The wounded man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital, where he was expected to recover, authorities said.